Quotulatiousness

July 16, 2009

Rephrasing Ben Franklin’s old aphorism

Filed under: Liberty, Politics, Quotations, USA — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 11:04

Benjamin Franklin is often quoted as having said “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”. Here’s a modern rephrasing, “The more you cede your own well-being to an 800-pound gorilla, the more that 800-pound gorilla is going to act like a thin-skinned asshole.“.

(Cross-posted to the old blog, http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005589.html.)

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